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📖 Carolopedia › Semantic memoryGuide page
📖What it means
Memory searched by MEANING rather than by exact words: a question finds what it is about, not only what it literally says. The embedding that makes this possible runs locally, so recall costs the estate nothing per query.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Memory
Semantic memory is one way of storing and finding memory, not a different thing remembered.
Not: Search
Semantic search matches meaning; ordinary search matches text.
🗣️Also called
vector memoryembedding searchmeaning search